Word: willingdon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rain poured. Nineteen guns boomed. The Empress of Scotland docked at Quebec last week bearing Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, the new Governor General of Canada (TIME, June...
...Lady Willingdon, brunette, in-clined to plumpness, presented the purser with a diamond stickpin, "on account of the trouble we have given on the way over." Viscount Willingdon, slender, a head taller than his wife, chatted before debarking with Premier King who had come on board as the ship entered the harbor...
...Baron and Baroness Byng sailed from Quebec on the Empress of France, the newly appointed Governor General, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon (TIME, June 21), embarked with Lady Willingdon at Southampton on the Empress of Scotland. Meanwhile Mr. King had formed the following Cabinet...
Race Equality. Viscount Willingdon, sometime Governor of Bombay and Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...